Dems deny ‘secret plan’

Source: The Hill

The head of House Democrats’ campaign committee tried Tuesday to tamp down speculation that the party would try to push through major legislation during a lame-duck session of Congress this fall...

But Democrats will face a lot of unfinished business when they return to Washington after November’s elections — likely with a smaller majority or even possibly having been relegated to the minority for the 112th Congress. They have yet to tackle immigration reform, climate change and so-called card-check legislation on union organizing, a bill that’s strongly opposed by Republicans.

Another major issue: the George W. Bush-era tax cuts set to expire at year’s end. Because of the political difficulty of tackling tax rates, it seems likely the issue will be taken up only after voters have weighed in at the ballot box.

GOP leaders and conservative activists have increasingly warned that Democrats, who seem likely to lose seats in both the House and Senate, could use the year-end session to ram through big-ticket legislative items that probably wouldn’t pass once the new Congress is seated in January.

Led by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), Republicans on Tuesday called on voters to pressure rank-and-file Democrats to swear off doing just that.



Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/111299-dems-deny-secret-plan

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The last chance to pass stuff, how can they resist?

Even if we lose Senate and House seats, the people in those seats hold them until January.

The 'Pugs have done the same on a number of occasions.

:banghead:

Can you possibly be any more negative/cynical - it's bizarre. It's almost as if you want to have bad stuff happen.

I'm pretty sure that only a conservative would find opposition to 'entitlement cuts' "bizarre".

And, what they don't do.

will suspend congress until the new repubican majority is seated.

Thank You Sir. May I Have Another Sir?